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English
Noun
tyraunt (plural tyraunts)
- Obsolete form of tyrant.
Middle English
- tyraunte, tiraunt, tirant, tyrant, tyrante, teraunt, tyran, terant, terraunte, tyrand, tyranne
Etymology
From Old French tirant, tyrant, tiran, from Latin tyrannus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtiːrau̯nt/, /ˈtiːrant/, /ˈtirant/, /ˈtirau̯nt/, /-an/
Noun
tyraunt (plural tyrauntis)
- An absolute monarch; one who rules in despotism.
- A monarch who is evil, merciless, or unfair.
- c. 1290, in the South-English Legendary (MS Laud 108), I 128:
Ore louerd helpe nouþe seint thomas : for oþur frend nath he non, / A-mong so manie tyraunz for-to come: þat weren alle is fon!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
c. 1471, John Fortescue, Works, section 453:Whan a Kyng rulith his Realme onely to his own profytt, and not to the good of his Subgetts, he ys a Tyraunte.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- A ruler who takes over a nation or usurps.
- One who suppresses or oppresses the followers of a creed.
- A scoundrel or malfeasant; one who is merciless, unfair, or evil.
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Adjective
tyraunt
- Relating to a tyrant.
- Tyrannical, harsh.
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